What is "crossbowmen"

Usage examples of "crossbowmen".

Euchees on the tower platform, many of them around the crenels or tending the roaring fire in the brazier, heating more oil and lighting wads of tow, and a dozen archers and crossbowmen shooting down through the machicolations at the combatants far below.

Along the upper tier, which curled around the sides of the ridge, about two thousand archers and crossbowmen were sticking shafts and bolts into the ground, making a convenient hedge.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the Gardac captain, this Dalkan Vael, spurrose mace in hand, looking up at the archers and crossbowmen, waiting for them to loose a first volley.

He made a small hand sign to one of the throne guards who held the balconies this day, to make stone cold sure no baronial crossbowmen just happened to idly mount the back stairs to gain a better view of things.

Grey Swords were assembling further down Inside Port Street, swordsmen, crossbowmen, and Capanthall archers, forming a fall-back line.

A half-dozen crossbowmen sat nearby, their weapons dismantled on their laps.

It was at Paris that they had picked up the four crossbowmen, pensioned off from the Italian wars, led by a sergeant named Patrice who had declared that he and his men were ready to hire out to protect the pilgrims on the perilous passage through bandit- ridden southern France.

Riders in chain mail on slender, quick-stepping horses, riders in plate on massive chargers, crossbowmen on mules.

They have both longbow-men and crossbowmen, but they probably left them to defend their train.

Along the battlements of the inner and outer wards and the barbican were lines of crossbowmen, and catapult crews were ready with missiles and engines at the bastions.